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Sacramento Raceway Park (SRP), commonly shortened to Sacramento Raceway or Sac Raceway, was a motorsports track on 198 acres (80 ha) near Rancho Cordova, California and the former Mather Air Force Base, known for holding weekly drag race events and annual Governors Cup Championship. It was completed in 1964 and the last races were held in ...
The Famoso Bakersfield Raceway still hosts the March Meet but it is now strictly a "nostalgia drag racing" event. In the 2000s, "Saturday Nitro" events featured Fuel altereds then switched to nostalgia funny cars around 2010. After a driver died in an on-track hit on the guardrail, they stopped hosting these non-sanctioned events.
In 1962, the course was sold to Bill Huth, who paid $116,000 for the facility and hoped to use the main straight for drag racing. Huth purchased the lease outright in 1980 and soon began expanding the facility. The initial 230 acres (93 ha) expanded to 600 acres (240 ha) with the purchase of adjacent land.
The 1/8-mile drag racing strip opened on September 29, 2001. In 2003, in cooperation with local law enforcement, Irwindale Speedway opened its own dragstrip and hosts legal drag races for street-legal cars, trucks, and motorcycles.
The County, Tracing the Rise and Fall of Drag Racing's Original "Supertrack", Dave Wallace, Drag Racing Magazine, November 1984. Clock Runs Out On Orange County Raceway, Gary Jarlson, Los Angeles Times, October 29, 1983. The Last Drag Race, Shav Glick, Los Angeles Times, October 29, 1983.
Santa Ana Drags was the first drag strip in the United States. [1] The strip was founded by C.J. "Pappy" Hart, Creighton Hunter and Frank Stillwell at the Orange County Airport auxiliary runway in southern California [2] and was operational from June 19, 1950 until June 21, 1959 [2] [3]
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Following the closure of the Baylands Raceway in Fremont, CA, the purchase of the land and construction of Thunderhill was funded by the San Francisco Region Sports Car Club of America. In late 1997, the track was expanded to its present-day 2.866 mi (4.612 km) configuration, adding six new turns, a bypass for the "cyclone" corner, and ...